Assume fictionless surface

Top-left pixel value is based on the stock price on Jan 1st 1998; bottom-right-most pixels are more current.

Log-2 of stock price, then normalized to historical range. Pixel value is mapped to a jet colormap.

Can we learn anything when we turn the 1D history of a stock price into a 2D image? What do gain from the extra dimension? Is it profitable to jump from one quarter to another just by comparing pixels sitting on top of one another?

Ok, so sooner than later: I turned the image into a surface plot - obviously. Sometimes a different perspective can give new ideas and insights about other perspectives. If nothing, new perspectives are entertaining. To the surface plot!